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And you can carry your guitar with you. Unlike a pianist, a guitarist almost never shows up to a gig and plays someone else's instrument. So standardization i
by bjt 6y ago
And you can carry your guitar with you. Unlike a pianist, a guitarist almost never shows up to a gig and plays someone else's instrument. So standardization is a lot less important.
The other thing guitarists have going for them is that no matter what scale length you play, the shape of the chords and scales changes as you go up the neck. Guitarists are constantly training with differently-spaced frets just by moving up and down the fretboard. This makes it trivial to switch scale lengths compared to keyboardists switching key widths.
- bluGill 6y agoGuitars are cheap enough that most players have more than one. It is common at jams to trade guitars for a song (or night).
- silicon2401 6y agoAs another user in this thread pointed out, why not develop swappable keyboards? The full physical function of a piano can be described quite simply as a set of keys that cause mallets to hit strings (ignoring the pedals because you can play a piano without pedals, but not a piano without keys). The full physical function of something like a car or computer can't be described so simply, yet in those fields swappable parts and customization are taken for granted. Swappable keyboards, swappable pedals, maybe even swappable mallets. These would preserve the timbre and function of a traditional piano, while also accommodating personal preference and variation. Is it so inconceivable to imagine that maybe there is some room for innovation with classical instruments?